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therefore there is no evil." This is the bold first denial.
How dare you say this? Because everybody and everything feels the same about his idea of Good, but never tells it. Sit down at a certain time every day and write down on paper what your idea of Good is. Write the highest ideas of Good you have. You cannot write a stroke higher than the slave's idea of Good, but you will find that such a practice will pin you down to the truth, and it is in Truth that there is power. All the sacred books of the earth tell that God is Truth, and that Truth is God.
The bold second denial is that "There is no matter, all is Spirit." If you notice that you are opposed to any interference with your Good, you can write it down that in your idea of Good there is no interference and there is no matter.
If you will speak boldly that there is no matter, this will handle all your affairs on a new basis. If you say, "All is Spirit, nothing is matter," that is making a denial of matter. Every time you refuse to believe any statement you are making a denial. Every time you say that a thing is not so you are making a denial. Negativing what is told you, or what seems to be real, but is not real, is a denial.
Looking up suddenly from their deep thoughts, metaphysicians have declared that "there is no life, substance, or intelligence in matter." They have affirmed that all life, all substance, all intelligence is Spirit; and therefore there is no life in matter, no substance in matter, no intelligence in matter. Spirit occupies the place that matter claims to occupy, therefore life occupies the place matter claims to occupy. In the spot where matter even seems to be a dead substance the life of the Spirit is moving. Spirit is the substance where even the stones seem to be.
Spirit is pure Intelligence. There is no place where matter seems to be intelligent, is there? Yet, "there is no
